Succotash, The Comedy Soundcast Soundcast

Succotash Clips Epi107: Clippin' Down The Bunny Trail

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

It’s
me. Marc Hershon, your host and busboy for Epi107 of
Succotash, the Comedy Podcast Podcast. Since this is an
edition of Succotash Clips, we have a Easter basket full
of comedy podcast clips on hand to unleash on your
ears.

Many thanks, as always,
to our faithful associate producer, Tyson Saner,
for grabbing so many of these for us. And also to those of you
comedy podcasters who sent in your own clips OR even someone else’s
clips — that’s what we got this week, from our friend in the UK,
Davian Dent.

Davian sent along a pair
of clips from shows other than his Strange Times podcast
or hisBitter Sound
show or his The Blank Planet podcast. Such a show
of podcaster generosity has inspired a new feature we kick off in
this episode.

And we’ve got a
jam-packed epi for you, including clips from Gilbert
Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, Angelos &
Barry, The Angry Chimp, Casa Mirth, Dark
Angels and Pretty Freaks, Date Speeding, Everyone
Has A Podcast, Hypernonsense, The Joe Rogan
Experience, The Radio Dan Show, and Who The Eff
Is Sal Calanni podcast.

In addition we have
another visit to the Podcast Graveyard to pay homage to a late,
great show, as well as unboxing a double dose of our Burst O’
Durst segment with comedian & social commentator Will Durst (you can also catch Will
tweeting @WillDurst!), the
Tweetsack, and a new commercial from our friends at Henderson’s
Pants, who are sponsoring this edition and promoting their new
Money Maker Pants.

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this much show we’d be charging extra but, no, you’re getting all
of this great entertainment for free! But that doesn’t mean you
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way?

Podcast
Graveyard

There are thousand upon
thousand of podcasts out on the podwaves. Many of them in the past
have had trouble sustaining themselves over the long haul. And many
that are currently being produced now will eventually be gone. But
we’d hate for any podcast to be forgotten, which is why we have
open the Podcast Graveyard. This episode, our associate producer
Tyson Saner has exhumed Making It With Riki
Lindhome, a podcast that seems to have ended without
fanfare in December of 2013. Riki is getting a lot of heat as one
half of the Garfunkel and Oates comedy team, so maybe that’s what
pulled her away from her show on the podwaves. Her last entry was
Epi74 and her guest was Mike Farah, the president
of production at Funny or Die.

Clips

Gilbert
Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal
PodcastWe hadn’t visited
Gilbert Gottfried and his Amazing Colossal
Podcast since it first dropped almost a year ago. But I got a
note a couple of weeks ago from friend-of-the-show Shawn
Marek over at the Sideshow Network, where Amazing
Colossal lives. Shawn’s a big hotshot producer over there and
he wanted to let me know that TV wildman and loose cannon
Dan Harmon, the creator of Community as
well as Adult Swim’s Rick & Morty (as well as host of
his own Harmontown podcast) was on Gilbert’s show. Now you
get to hear a snippet from that show, courtesy of Mr. Marek, when
Dan explains the whole magilla that happened between himself and
Chevy Chase.

The Joe Rogan
ExperienceWe’ve featured The
Joe Rogan Experience a few times over the almost three years
our show’s been around but not for a while. In this snippet,
Joe Rogan's guest Bert Kreischer,
a comedian and podcaster in his own right, along with co-host
Brian Redban, chatter about comedian Colin
Quinn, a type of comedy appears to be replaced, and our
memories are likened to a computer’s hard drive.

The Radio Dan
ShowDan Delgado over at The Radio Dan Show
has taken advantage of our instant upload link to shoot a couple of snippets from
his podcast over to us. They’re short clips – less than a minute
each, so I decided to make you a Radio Dan Sandwich or "danwich".
I’ve wrapped both snippets around a tasty chunk of chat that I had
with Dan last September in the Podcast Lab where we were both
staked out during the 3rd Annual LA Podcast
Festival.

Date
SpeedingSomeone else who took
advantage of our Succotash instant upload was Jason
Duplissea, who was one-half of the What Duvet
Said podcast. (That show’s been on hiatus – Jason says it may
get an overhaul and be kicked back into gear again. Hmm. If not, we
might find What Duvet Said in the Podcast Graveyard!)
Anyway, he’s got a new podcast up and running called Date
Speeding hosted by the Reverend Rich Hugh. He
says it’s advice for online daters and has a kind of Jack
Handey/Deep Thoughts vibe, but with what he calls “a healthy dose
of explicit language.”

Angelos &
BarryIn a world of confusion,
media bombardment and mixed messages, it’s good to know the great
philosopher's tradition still exists. Much like 70s comedy legends
Derek & Clive before them, Angelos &
Barry present a truly hysterical meeting of minds.
Angelos Epithemiou was previously on cult UK
comedy show Shooting Stars and Barry From
Watford has graced TV, radio, and even our friend Davian
Dent's shows The Bitter Sound and Strange Times.
In this clip, the two discuss the possibly apocryphal events
surrounding porn legend "King Dong" on a British 70s evening light
entertainment show.

The Casa Mirth
PodcastIn this clip from the
first episode of the new and second series of The Casa Mirth
Podcast, Dr. Norman Trousers and
River Zambezi discuss the differences between
woman's swimwear and underwear.

Everyone Has A
PodcastAnother Tyson grab this
week is a clip from Everyone Has A Podcast, with hosts
Adam and Byron who, apparently,
have no last names. According to their website, the guys are slowly
building themselves a recording studio but started out doing their
show by recording it into an iPhone. This clip is from their Epi3,
entitled “Butt Crunch”.

The Angry Chimp
ShowOur friends Stu and
company down under at The Angry Chimp Show uploaded us a
clip from season 2 of their monkeyshines, which has just drawn to a
close this week. Stu sent along a note with the
clip that reads: “Hi, thought I would submit a clip from the second
season of The Angry Chimp Show for your consideration
should you be short on clips for upcoming epis. Hope you are well
and keep up the good work! Stu” Thanks, Stu! These guys are a lot
of fun and know how to work the audio sketch
medium.

Who The Eff Is Sal
Calanni?There’s a podcast we’ve
featured a time or two before that’s had a couple of permutations,
including being called The Sal & Angelo Show. Now it’s
called Who The Eff is Sal Calanni? and features San
Francisco comedian Sal Calanni. He recently hit
his 200th episode so I thought it was high time to check in, and
he’s got a great story in the episode featuring the process he had
to go through to audition for a movie that’s being shot in the Bay
Area.

Hyper
NonsenseThis clip has a bit of a
mysterious history. It was uploaded directly to us and with the
show's information, and that it was from a recent episode of
Hyper Nonsense. So I tweeted out a thank you and heard
back from one of one of the co-hosts who claims that they never
submitted a clip and where did it come from? Who knows, really. The
hosts, Shawn Thorpe and his wife,
Jen, are podcast vets, having started a podcast in
2005 called The Phantomfeed. Then they moved and launched
a new show called Hyper Nonsense in 2006, which ran until
2009. In 2010 they started a new ‘cast called
GeminiDragon, which ended in 2012, at which point they
kicked off No Market Radio. Shawn wasn’t happy with that
concept and so, in 2013, he and Jen decided to breathe new life
into Hyper Nonsense and they swear on a stack of websites,
that this one is here to stay.

Dark Angels and Pretty
FreaksI wonder if it’s time for
a new adage, something along the lines of “the couple that podcasts
together stays together”. There are a LOT of married couples in the
podcast game, like our friends Travis and Brandi
Clark from Tiny Odd Conversations, or
Shawn and Jen from Hypernonsense that we
also featured this show. There’s a show out of nearby Napa,
California, called Dark Angels and Pretty Freaks, hosted
by Annaleis and her husband Neil
C. They’ve been really nice about retweeting a lot of our
Succotash tweets but this is the first chance we’ve had to
feature their show. The tagline on their website states, “Helping
to Kill Your Commute”. It’s a conversational-style show with topics
ranging all over the place, a lot of it focusing on things they do
together. So maybe it’s kind of like real time couples’ therapy or
something. I pulled this clip of them talking about a magic show
they saw during a recent trip to Reno.

That’s going to do it for
Succotash Epi107. Thanks to our esteemed associate producer
Tyson Saner, our producer/engineer Joe
Paulino, and our booth announcer Bill
Haywatt. Next time, in Epi108, I will feature my recent
interview with comedy writer extraordinaire and podcaster
David Feldman, and we’ll also have a Boozin’
with Bill segment, where our announcer will mix up a
concoction he calls “The Roman Candle”. In the meantime, please
feel free to pass the Succotash!